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Break Down These Bars by Jim Edwards, as told to David Ballantyne is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Break Down These Bars about?
This is the story of Jim Edwards, who was six weeks on the run and was sentenced to two years jail with hard labour for allegedly inflaming the Queen Street 'riots' of 1932. It tells of the events of that dramatic night, of the great marches of the unemployed, of the Depression 'slave camps' where man lost self-respect. It is the story of a man whose spirit police batons could not quell, whose sense of humour made light of jail and of being an outlaw on the run ..."--Back cover.
Who reads Break Down These Bars?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jim Edwards, as told to David Ballantyne
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140092257
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Economics, Memoir, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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